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another PR knitting moment. (Knitting for a client, again)

Submitted by grandcarriage on Sat, 2009-12-19 21:24

The image rises on the stately visage of the Fabulous Tim Gunn:

Attention Designers,

Your challenge is to knit, for your client, a pair of men's mittens with a sporty stripe and a matching cowl with the provided two yarns of disparate thickness. You have one night to do so... Make it work.

The yarn is a local (Canby, OR) border leicester. (SuDan Farms). I had a sport weight (the grey, knit double) and a worsted (yellow). They were loaded with lanolin and a delight to knit with, and yes...basically done in one night while watching Project runway Season 4 (The entire f@cking night... finished at 6:15 in the morning)...

I did the prototype mitten, the two stripeys, and the cowl (although I had to use some of my own yarn on the cowl...fortunately a pretty close match).

Bill, I honestly had the same gripe until I discovered that if I press the command key and the + key, everything on the screen gets bigger (and conversely if you press command and the - key everything gets smaller). I have a Mac (Macbook) and I can't remember what you have but if it's a PC I'm sure there must be something analogous you can do to enlarge what's on the screen. See you Monday, Tom

Great set of gloves, handsome model and learned how to enlarge the screen with just a few keystrokes! () (I'm a PC). Great learning experience. Been looking for a simple but good looking glove pattern and this could be it. I agree with Scottly, got a pattern? I'll keep looking in my Christmas stocking for it...

Well, the computer I'm using wouldn't enlarge the photos but I enjoyed them anyhow. Great looking set and I hope the client was pleased. Such a goodlooking model deserves all the praise he gets, especially when showing such fine knitting. -- Books, knitting, cats, fountain pens...Life is Good.